Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What fun," observed Winston Churchill in 1907, envisioning the future dam, "to make the immemorial Nile begin its journey by diving through a turbine...
...parallel to the canal-fronting face of Contractor's Hill. Engineers guess that the cracks may run 600 ft. deep. Because it is hard, granite-like rock rather than the soft, clay-shale conglomerate of earlier slides, the face of Contractor's Hill will make a formidable dam if it falls...
...Updike's contribution to the frontispiece, cites the popular misconception about springtime joys on the banks of the Charles. He sums up his feeling with: "I'm just a creeping socialist, and you can be sure as shootin' that the next TVA-like project I sponsor will be a dam to head off the Charles at West Newton." Not neglecting baseball, G. E. Vaillant has, written "Dink Stover at Sarasota," in which the fabled athlete tries to make the major leagues in the best Yale manner. He fails...
...Hoover Dam, Harry Morrison put together the famed Six Companies, Inc.,-and contributed $500,000 as his share of the $5,000,000 capital. Looking back, he cannot help thinking that every dam since Hoover has been an anticlimax. "It's the glamour dam," he says wistfully. "I still can't go down in the elevator and step out on the intake and look up without being inspired." M-K introduced bulldozers to its partners at Hoover, wound up using 60 huge monsters. There, too, M-K showed off a new tunnel-driving technique using drill jumbos, great...
Such big Eastern firms as Ebasco, Raymond Concrete Pile, Merritt-Chapman & Scott, Stone & Webster are building air bases in France and Spain, powerhouses in Greece, a dam in Japan, electric plants in Bombay, Brazil and the Dominican Republic, oil refineries in England, Italy, and Australia, paper mills for Israel, roads through the Belgian Congo, and a new harbor at Auckland...